From the Board of Editors: on Plagiarism

Appl. Opt. 52(4), ED1-ED2 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

OSA’s Review of Applied Optics

Joseph N. Mait

Appl. Opt. 52(4), ED3-ED4 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Applied Industrial Optics

Hans-Peter Loock, Rongguang Liang, and Giancarlo Pedrini

Appl. Opt. 52(4), AIO1-AIO1 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Accurate and fast stray radiation calculation based on improved backward ray tracing

Liu Yang, An XiaoQiang, and Wang Qian

Appl. Opt. 52(4), B1-B9 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of metal substrates on the detection of explosive residues with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Jennifer L. Gottfried

Appl. Opt. 52(4), B10-B19 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of optical and structural properties of ceramic boron nitride by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

Mira Naftaly and Jon Leist

Appl. Opt. 52(4), B20-B25 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimization of thickness uniformity of optical coatings on a conical substrate in a planetary rotation system

Chun Guo, Mingdong Kong, Cunding Liu, and Bincheng Li

Appl. Opt. 52(4), B26-B32 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical sensing techniques for temperature measurement

B. Rami Reddy, Indumathi Kamma, and Praveena Kommidi

Appl. Opt. 52(4), B33-B39 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication and modeling of multimode fiber lenses

Klaus Bescherer, Dorit Munzke, Oliver Reich, and Hans-Peter Loock

Appl. Opt. 52(4), B40-B45 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of tilt on collinear calibration of a laser interferometer

Shanzhi Tang, Zhao Wang, Jianmin Gao, and Lihong Zhong

Appl. Opt. 52(4), B46-B51 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

High-accuracy sinusoidal phase-modulating self-mixing interferometer using an electro-optic modulator: development and evaluation

Wei Xia, Ming Wang, Zhenyu Yang, Wenhua Guo, Hui Hao, and Dongmei Guo

Appl. Opt. 52(4), B52-B59 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Terahertz polarization conversion with quartz waveplate sets

Andrey K. Kaveev, Grigory I. Kropotov, Ekaterina V. Tsygankova, Ivan A. Tzibizov, Sergey D. Ganichev, Sergey N. Danilov, Peter Olbrich, Christina Zoth, Elizaveta G. Kaveeva, Alexander I. Zhdanov, Andrey A. Ivanov, Ramil Z. Deyanov, and Britta Redlich

Appl. Opt. 52(4), B60-B69 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Rapid inspection method for measuring interior tilt and decenter in singlet lens

Ching-Yuan Chang, Chien-Ching Ma, Kuo-Cheng Huang, and Shih-Feng Tseng

Appl. Opt. 52(4), B70-B81 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral data mining for rapid measurement of organic matter in unsieved moist compost

Somsubhra Chakraborty, David C. Weindorf, Md. Nasim Ali, Bin Li, Yufeng Ge, and Jeremy L. Darilek

Appl. Opt. 52(4), B82-B92 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Low cost “laserless” FTIR spectrometer on the farm for real-time nitrous oxide soil emission measurements

Karl Henrik Haugholt, Matthieu Lacolle, Marion O’Farrell, Atle Honne, Kari Anne Hestnes Bakke, and Aina Lundon

Appl. Opt. 52(4), B93-B101 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Cylindrical lenses—focusing and imaging: a review [Invited]

Colin J. R. Sheppard

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 538-545 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Toward a super imaging system [Invited]

David Mendlovic

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 561-566 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Half a century of optics in computing—a personal perspective [Invited]

Joseph Shamir

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 600-612 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Coherent and incoherent synthetic-aperture imaging ladars and laboratory-space experimental demonstrations [Invited]

Liren Liu

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 579-599 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Seeing through turbidity with harmonic holography [Invited]

Ye Pu and Demetri Psaltis

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 567-578 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Advances in three-dimensional integral imaging: sensing, display, and applications [Invited]

Xiao Xiao, Bahram Javidi, Manuel Martinez-Corral, and Adrian Stern

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 546-560 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Silicon nanophotonic devices for chip-scale optical communication applications [Invited]

Y. Fainman, M. P. Nezhad, D. T. H. Tan, K. Ikeda, O. Bondarenko, and A. Grieco

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 613-624 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

High-spectral-resolution characterization of broadband high-efficiency reflection gratings

Kai He, Jianpeng Wang, Yongqiang Hou, Xu Li, Heyuan Guan, Fanyu Kong, Shijie Liu, Yunxia Jin, and Kui Yi

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 653-658 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Controlled angular redirection of light via nanoimprinted disordered gratings

Thomas Buß, Jérémie Teisseire, Simon Mazoyer, Cameron L. C. Smith, Morten Bo Mikkelsen, Anders Kristensen, and Elin Søndergård

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 709-716 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical properties of the fiber-optic temperature sensor based on the side-hole fiber filled with indium

Bok Hyeon Kim, Seung Ho Lee, Dong Hoon Son, Tae-Jung Ahn, So Eun Kim, and Won-Taek Han

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 666-673 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact magnetic-field sensor based on optical microfiber Michelson interferometer and Fe₃O₄ nanofluid

Ming Deng, Xiaokang Sun, Meng Han, and Decai Li

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 734-741 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Sagittal and meridional radii of curvature for a surface with symmetry of revolution by using a null-screen testing method

Amilcar Estrada-Molina, Manuel Campos-García, and Rufino Díaz-Uribe

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 625-634 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-component double conjugate zoom lens system from tunable focus lenses

Antonín Mikš and Jiří Novák

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 862-865 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

q-plate for millimeter-wave orbital angular momentum manipulation

Stefania Maccalli, Giampaolo Pisano, Sergio Colafrancesco, Bruno Maffei, Ming Wah Richard Ng, and Malcolm Gray

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 635-639 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of surrounding inhomogeneities on whispering gallery modes in spherical resonators

Sina Amini, Yu You, George W. Kattawar, and Kenith E. Meissner

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 690-697 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Selective field localization in random structured media

Jason S. D. Roberts, Hossein Alisafaee, and Michael A. Fiddy

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 742-749 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Effects of nonlocal plasmons in gapped graphene micro-ribbon array and two-dimensional electron gas on near-field electromagnetic response in the deep subwavelength regime

Danhong Huang, Godfrey Gumbs, and Oleksiy Roslyak

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 755-769 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Simple-structured capillary-force-dominated tunable-focus liquid lens based on the higher-order-harmonic resonance of a piezoelectric ring transducer

Guo-Hua Feng and Jun-Hao Liu

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 829-837 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Surface plasmon-enhanced terahertz spectroscopic distinguishing between isomers in powder form

Mingxia He, Jingyan Li, Guanlin Liu, Jiaguang Han, Zhen Tian, Jianqiang Gu, Tao Chen, and Rui Qin

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 824-828 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Very low resistance ZnS/Ag/ZnS/Ag/ZnS nano-multilayer anode for organic light emitting diodes applications

Hamideh Kermani, Hamid Reza Fallah, Morteza Hajimahmoodzadeh, and Seyed Vahid Tabatabaei

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 780-785 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Analyzing the effects of particle size on remotely sensed spectra: a study on optical properties and spectral similarity scale of suspended particulate matters in water

Yingcheng Lu, Guang Zheng, Qingjiu Tian, Chunguang Lyu, and Shaojie Sun

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 879-888 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Extended wavelet transformation to digital holographic reconstruction: application to the elliptical, astigmatic Gaussian beams

Clément Remacha, Sébastien Coëtmellec, Marc Brunel, and Denis Lebrun

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 838-848 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Lattice algebra approach to multispectral analysis of ancient documents

Juan C. Valdiviezo-N and Gonzalo Urcid

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 674-682 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Known-plaintext attack-based optical cryptosystem using phase-truncated Fresnel transform

Sudheesh K. Rajput and Naveen K. Nishchal

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 871-878 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Predefinable colorimetric quantum-dot barcodes with simple and express identification algorithm

Bo Wu and Hai-Qing Gong

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 866-870 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Probability mapping images in dynamic speckle classification

Isabel Passoni, Héctor Rabal, Gustavo Meschino, and Marcelo Trivi

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 726-733 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Oceanographic lidar profiles compared with estimates from in situ optical measurements

Jennifer H. Lee, James H. Churnside, Richard D. Marchbanks, Percy L. Donaghay, and James M. Sullivan

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 786-794 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Estimation of hyperspectral inherent optical properties from in-water radiometry: error analysis and application to in situ data

Eric Rehm and Curtis D. Mobley

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 795-817 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Research on potential problems of object image grating self-tiling for applications in large aperture optical systems

Zhaoyang Li, Tao Wang, Guang Xu, Dawei Li, Jianwei Yu, Weixin Ma, Jian Zhu, Lei Chen, and Yaping Dai

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 718-725 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultracompact, narrowband three-dimensional plasmonic waveguide Bragg grating in metal/multi-insulator/metal configuration

Yin-Jung Chang and Chun-Yu Chen

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 889-896 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Suspended hollow core fiber for terahertz wave guiding

Xiaogang Jiang, Daru Chen, and Gufeng Hu

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 770-774 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Silica nanospheres for filtering higher-order optical fiber modes

Guigen Liu, Yihui Wu, Kaiwei Li, Peng Hao, and Ming Xuan

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 775-779 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Highly stable graphene-assisted tunable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser

Harith Ahmad, Amirah Abdul Latif, Muhammad Imran Mustafa Abdul Khudus, Ahmad Zarif Zulkifli, Mohd. Zamani Zulkifli, Kavintheran Thambiratnam, and Sulaiman Wadi Harun

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 818-823 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of interference between two optical beams in a quasi-zero electric permittivity photonic crystal superlattice

Ziyuan Li and Haroldo T. Hattori

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 854-861 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterization of one-dimensional lasing in semiconductor disordered nanopowders

Peyman Rafiee, Gholamhossein Haghighat, and Vahid Ahmadi

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 659-665 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Thin-disk laser with Bessel-like output beam: theory and simulations

R. Aghbolaghi, S. Batebi, and J. Sabaghzadeh

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 683-689 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation of a strong uniform transversely polarized nondiffracting beam using a high-numerical-aperture lens axicon with a binary phase mask

P. Suresh, C. Mariyal, K. B. Rajesh, T. V. S. Pillai, and Z. Jaroszewicz

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 849-853 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Photovoltaic ultraviolet detectors based on Zr_0.04Ti_0.96O₂ solid solution nanowire arrays

Haifeng Zhang, Hailong Li, Min Zhang, Caihui Feng, Xuehui Gu, Yang Xu, Jingran Zhou, and Shengping Ruan

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 750-754 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Dispersion and anisotropy of thermo-optic coefficients in tetragonal GdVO₄ and YVO₄ laser host crystals

Pavel A. Loiko, Konstantin V. Yumashev, Vladimir N. Matrosov, and Nikolai V. Kuleshov

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 698-705 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Modeling the scattering properties of mineral aerosols using concave fractal polyhedra

Chao Liu, R. Lee Panetta, Ping Yang, Andreas Macke, and Anthony J. Baran

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 640-652 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical response of laser-doped silicon carbide for an uncooled midwave infrared detector: errata

Geunsik Lim, Tariq Manzur, and Aravinda Kar

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 717-717 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Holographic aperture ladar: erratum

Bradley D. Duncan and Matthew P. Dierking

Appl. Opt. 52(4), 706-708 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF